How to access buildKey bamboo variable in the atlassian-plugin.xml

Question

I need to paas the buildKey as a query parameter to the link defined in the web-item in atlassian-plugin.xml. currently I am passing the planKey, however it fails to load the Results saying the Plan XYZ not found. When I manually alter the URL, the report is rendered.

/build/result/ViewBuildReport.action?planKey=${planKey}&buildNumber=${buildNumber}

here the plan key that is generated is PROJ1-PLAN1 ,the report however fails to laod, saying PROJ1-PLAN1 not found. When I manually change the URL to PROJ1-PLAN1-JOB1 , the reports are rendered. This problem is occuring in Bamboo 5.9.7 version and not on latest.

In order to get the URL in the form PROJ1-PLAN1-JOB1 , I need to get the right bamboo variable, buildKey can get the value, but it is returning empty null string. I tried using buildKey=${buildKey} or buildKey=${bamboo.buildKey}, nothing works.So how to get this to work? I am not able to process the artifacts directory also due to this issue.

Ali Karaca · Answer

@Nikita Bedmutha I've same error did you find any solution?

btw i'm trying to put a link for a report in atlassian-pom.xml

If you select a job name in left menu which is

section="results.subMenu/results" -> buildKey = ABP-PLAN-JOB1-3

But in opening screen of a build, if you don't select anything then

section="chainResults.subMenu/chainResults" -> buildKey = ABP-PLAN

Nikita Bedmutha · Answer

My web item action is the ViewBuildResults calss which is used to render some reports generated during build step.

Nikita Bedmutha · Answer

1. Sorry for the confusion, but ${buildKey} returns value as 'PROJ1-PLAN1'.

2. Yes, this problem occurs in 5.9.7. So when tried same on 6.5.0, ${buildKey} returns same PROJ1-PLAN1, but it renders the contents of the action correctly, while in 5.9.7, URL built using this value says, PROJ1-PLAN1 not found i.e.<PLAN_KEY> not found. And on manually changing the URL to PROJ1-PLAN1-JOB1, it renders the contents of the action web item. On 6.5.0, contents are rendered correctly for both values w/ and w/o JOB1.

So I was searching for some bamboo variable which will give me value PROJ1-PLAN1-JOB1, but I tried almost all available in documentation, but none of them works as required. Also I am not sure, but can this issue be due to change in directory structure for the artifacts which was introduced post 5.9.?